Printing device.



J. S. DUNCAN.

PRINTING DEVICE.

APPLIOATIOJUILBD 11H7, 1910.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

JOSEPH S. DUNCAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORl TO-ADDRESSOGRAPH COMPANY,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

PRINTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.`

Patented May 14, 1912.

Application filed May7, 1910. Serial No. 559,905.

cago, in the county of Cook andv State of' Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvenients in Printing Devices, lof which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of printing devices which comprise a printing form and an information card and are adapted to be stored in accordance with a card index system or stacked in a pile.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a print-ing device of simple and' inexpensive construction in which' the frame and the printing form are combined in one integral device, being made out of sheet metal with type characters stamped therein for the printing-form, and formed into a frame to prevent contact with the -face of the type characters when the devices are storedl or stacked,'a'nd `to strengthen and A further object of the invention is to provide the device with a card adapted to receive an impression from the w'hole or a part of the printing form, and with means for removably securing the card in place in the device.

For the purposes of convenience and economy it is desirable to make printing devices of this general character as small, light, simple, and cheaplyas possible, and at the same time they should be sufficiently strong to keep their shape. j The invention has for its object to provide a printing device answering all of these 'reqnirements and for this pullipose the card is preferably made narrow'to receive, say, only two lines, whereas the printing form may contain more than two lines, and it may be mentioned now that the card may receive impressions from any two lines of type of the printing forni or it may receive any other information.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a front view of a printing device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom edge view. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse sec-` tional view of the device. Fig. 4 is a back view of the device.

The drawings illustrate my invention in -what I now regard asthe simplest and most desirable form, the printing plate section 5 having five lines of type, although I do not vtrsely by4 the -spacin consider the number of lilies a matter of material importance, and the card 6 having only two lines of printing. When a narrow 'card is used, as shown, the device can be made comparatively small and the cost of production is correspondingly lessened.

The device is made out of a single sheet 7 of metal and it comprises the printing plate section 5 in which the type characters 5 are stamped or pressed by any suitable means. The ends of the sheet are bent to form spacing flanges 8 at the back of the device and between these spacing flanges the uppei' and lower edges of the sheetv are turned inwardly upon the front of thesheet t'o provide strengthening and stil'ening beads 9 and 10. Between the printing plate and the bead 9 a rib 11 is pressed upward on the front of the device from the back thereof and this rib extends parallel with the bead 9 and between the spacing flanges. The bead 9 is adapted to receiveone edge of the card G and lips 12 are struck up from the .rib 11 to receive the opposite edge of the card.

'adapted to have a type character pressed or stamped therein, otherwise thereto.

My improved printing device is strengthened and stifl'ened longitudinally by the beads 9 and 10 and the rib 11 and transfr flanges 8., I now prefer that the faces of the printing charactei's should lie in a plane below the beads and rib, thus additionally protecting the type characters from injury, but for some purposes it will be sufficient to rely upon the spacing flanges for this protection and the` applied faces of the type characters may lie in a vthe card bears animpression of only a pordevice constructed to receive such a. card.v

7 Instead of receiving. an impression from the printing form of the device the vcard may bear any other desired information.

This device is so strengthened and stif-l ened that it can be made of comparatively thin-and light metal whereby a greater number of the devices may bie stored or stacked Iin a given space and this not only reduces the cost of production but also provides for -a material economy in'the use ofsuch print' ing devices. I, What I claim and desire to secure by lLetters Patent is:

1. A printing device comprising a metal blank having opposite edges bent to form spacing flanges, and a rib stamped up from the blank, extending atsubst-antially right angles to the spacing flanges throughout substantially the length of the space between the flanges, and disposed intermediate of the other edges of the blank and dividing the blank into a card-receiving space at one side of the rib, and a printing space at the other side of the rib.

' 2. A-prin'ting device comprising a metal blank having opposite edges bent to form spacing flanges, the other opposite edges being bent to form stilfening beads, and the metal of the blank being stamped from the back forwardly to'form a continuous groove at the back of the blank and a continuous rib on the front of the blank, said rib lying between the stiffening beads and parallel therewith and extending' substantially throughout the length of the space between the spacing flanges and dividing the blank into a card receiving space between the rib and one of the beads, and avprinting space between the rib and the other bead.

3. A printing device comprising a :metall blank having opposite' edges bent to form Sp-acing flanges, the other opposite edges beingY bent to form stilfening beads, a rib stamped up from tlie blank in substantial` parallelism with the beads and dividing the blank into a card-receiving space between the rib and one of the beads, and a printing device between the rib and the other bead, the printing space having printing characters stamped therein. l

4. A printing device made out of a single sheet of metal and comprising a ,printing plate section having printing characters stamped vup therefrom and on the front thereof, the ends of said sheet being bent to form spacing flanges, the edges of the sheet betweenthe spacing flanges being bent to sheet of metaland comprising a printing, plat-e section having printing characters' stamped up therefrom and on the front thereof, the ends of said sheet being bent to `form spacing flanges at the back thereof', the edges of the sheet' between the Aspacing `flanges being bent to form beads, and a rib stamped up from the sheetv and extending between the spacing flanges and parallel with and between the beads, said beads vand rib being on the front of the device and pr0- jecting above the face of the printing characters.

6. A printing device made out of a single sheet of metal and comprising a printing plate sect-ion ,having printing characters stamped up therefrom, the ends of such sheet being bent to form spacing flanges and the edges of the sheet between the spacing flanges being bent to form beads, a rib stampedup from the sheet andextending between the spacing flanges and parallel with and between rthe beads, a'card, one of:

said beads being adapted to receive--an edge of the card, and lips struck up from the rib to receive the other edge of the card.

7. Al printing device comprising a metal blank having opposite edges bent'to form spacing flanges, a rib struck up from the blank in substantial parallelism with the other edges ofthe blank and extending throughout substantially the distance between the flanges, said rib dividing the blank into a card-receiving space at one side of the rib and a printing space at the other side of the rib, said printing space having printing characters stamped therein.

8. A printing device made out of a single sheet of metal and comprising aprinting plate section having printing characters stamped up therefrom,-spacing flanges at the ends of the plate, beads at the edges lof the device between the spacing flanges, a rib extending between the spacing flanges and parallel with and between the beads, a card located in t-he space'between the rib and one of the beads, devices struck up from the rib and the sheet to engage the card and one of said beads beingalso adapted to engage the card to hold the card in place', and an index tab stamped outof the sheet and projecting outward fromsaid bead.

JOSEPH S. DUNCAN Witnesses:

WM. O. BELT, M. AfKIDDIE. 

